DETROIT, MI- General Motors Co. and its new leadership team are “perfectly aligned” to accelerate the company’s current success, according to CEO Mary Barra.

The new head executive of the Detroit-based automaker said her focus for the next chapter of the iconic company is on collaboration and teamwork to provide strong products and new innovations for customers.

Barra, who started as a co-op student at GM’s Pontiac Motor Division in 1980, said innovations of all sizes – from the extended-range technology of the Chevrolet Volt to corner step bumpers on its lineup of full-size pickups – will help the company continue its current success, which includes 15-consecutive quarters of profitability.

“We need to make sure that we’re innovating,” she said during a media roundtable Thursday at the company’s Renaissance Center headquarters in Detroit. “And my personal definition of innovating is something that adds value and delights the customer.”

The importance of innovation and teamwork, according to Barra, were recently highlighted when 300 of GM’s top executives from across the globe gathered in Detroit to discuss the company and its future.

"They're all very much intact," she said. "There is no right turn or left turn that we're going to be making."

Some mid-decade goals included breaking even in Europe; increasing China sales to 5 million vehicles; and upping North American operating margins.

GM's new leadership team, which was announced in early-December, includes Dan Ammann as president; Mark Reuss succeeding Barra as executive vice president of global product development, purchasing and supply chain; Alan Batey, senior vice president, global Chevrolet and U.S. sales and marketing, succeeding Reuss as executive vice president and president, North America; and Chuck Stevens, most recently CFO of GM North America, as Ammann’s successor for CFO.

“I believe in the power of collaboration and the power of teamwork,” she said. “I think we get to better decisions when we can capture the knowledge and experience and insights and judgments of a global team.”